WERPO has signed an agreement with the Government of Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, for the development of a 500 MW wave power plant off the county’s coastline. The USD 500 mln agreement has been signed for creating a joint venture between the Government of of Guinea-Bissau and WERPO. The Guinea-Bissau
Vattenfall, the Swedish energy company, has started construction on Kentish Flats Extension, expected to cost more than £150mn to build and the only wind farm to be built offshore in UK waters in 2015. Construction started late on Saturday May 2, with the piling of foundations for the 15-turbine sch
Subsea CT scanner for flowlines, Discovery™, has completed the first deepwater deployment on Shell-operated flowlines in the Gulf of Mexico. Discovery™ was developed by Tracerco, part of the FTSE100 Johnson Matthey Plc. The technology is used to establish the integrity of subsea pipeline assets. In
OpenHydro aims to deploy two tidal arrays before the end of 2015 in France and Canada. OpenHydro, a subsidiary of DCNS, celebrates a decade in business while preparing for the realization of two major tidal energy projects. Irish-based company is working with Emera, through its jointly funded ventur
Nautronix has been awarded a multimillion-pound contract extension to continue to provide survey services to Ocean Installer for the next 3 years. Nautronix has provided their services to projects world-wide on all Ocean Installer vessels. According to the Nautronix, with the growth of company’s sur
French cable major, Nexans, has secured a contract from Samsung Heavy Industries, worth approximately 11.5 million Euros, for halogen-free cables for Ichthys project’s Central Processing Facility (CPF). Nexans will supply about 2,200 km of halogen-free instrumentation and electrical cables for the I
Leading geophysicists, geologists and other geoscientists from across a broad spectrum of the geological and geophysical industry this week urged the Administration to move forward in approving pending permits for geological and geophysical surveys for exploration of the Mid- and South Atlantic Oute
Lankhorst Ropes has started production for the Aasta Hansteen deepwater mooring rope contract at its rope manufacturing facility in Viana do Castelo in Portugal. The Gama 98 ropes will be used to moor Statoil’s Spar platform located in the Norwegian sector of the Norwegian Sea, in a contract awarded
IKM has marked its expansion of ROV subsea services division with a relocation to a new office in Aberdeen, and with the appointment of Gary Thomson. Thomson joins as Managing Director and the appointment comes after a period of sustained interest and growth in the service, particularly from the sub
Clinton and Finnish Transport Agency (FTA) sign a contract for Bay of Bothnia Raahe – Oulu – Kemi Hydrographic Survey. The vessels MV Northern Wind and MV Lode will be used during the mapping survey. The survey will be conducted with the multibeam system Kongsberg EM 2040D and motion sensor Kongsber
StormGeo, a provider of decision support services and products to support weather sensitive operations, has announced OceanWatch and SpillWatch. According to StormGeo, the new services enable oil and gas companies and renewable energy companies to make informed assessments of operational and environ
CEO and managing director of the Singapore-listed offshore O&G contractor Ezra Holdings, Lionel Lee, has stepped down from his positions on the board, of EMAS Offshore and Triyards Holdings. According to EMAS Offshore, Lee’s resignation as a director and the vice-chairman of the company is with effe
Anglesey Skerries tidal project could be restarted after the recent acquisition of Marine Current Turbines, the initial developer of the tidal array project, by Atlantis Resources. The location of the proposed Anglesey Skerries tidal array project is in the Sound between the group of rocks and islan
A new subsea company is being launched at OTC in Houston today May 4, 2015. Underwater Integrity Solutions (UIS), headquartered in Houston, is an independent company focused on underwater integrity, production assurance and life extension for subsea fields. HitecVision has committed $150 million of
